Banglaspot Blog Bangla about Barishal Division of Bangladesh Barisal City is an old port on the Kirtan Khola River, on the northern shore of the Bay of Bengal in southern Bangladesh. It is 142 km from the capital city Dhaka. It is now the headquarters of both the Barisal Division and the Barisal District. The city consists of 30 wards and 50 sub-wards or mahallas in Bengali. Barisal was a semi-independent area in the Mughal period because of heavy fighting between them and Hindu chiefs. In course of time, it fell under Bengal Nawabs and British India, later passed to Bangladesh. Barisal is the central city of this division. It is one of the biggest river ports in Bangladesh. The city is sometimes called the “Venice of the East” or the “Venice of Bengal”. Barisal has many renowned educational institutions. Govt. Brojomohan College is the oldest institution of higher education in the city, foundation in 1889. There is a government medical college, a public univer...